The 定义 of the 风格 of 声音 or 性格学 is the third procedure of the five in the 听觉训练 After 类型学 and 形态学 where the criteria of 声音 are isolated in simple examples 性格学 is a return to the concrete since it considers the 主要 examples of 组合 formed in 声音 and 音乐 现实 by bundles of characteristic criteria in accordance with 自然 acoustic laws which most often link them together

性格学 and 音乐 分析 complete one another being respectively the practical pole 音色 lutherie registers and the 理论上 pole 研究 into 音乐 结构 of a 过程 which aims to 合成 the 音乐 But these two procedures are presented in the Traité as working hypotheses unlike 类型学 and 形态学 of which a complete and assured account is 特定

源 –Michel Chion 1983 Guide des Objets Sonores Eds Buchet/Chastel Paris 1995 translation by John Dack/Christine North